스쳐간 만세 ‘전’의 풍경 2 -연락선을 중심으로

Abstract

In <Mansejeon(萬歲前)>, Lee In-Hwa took the railway ferry from Shimonoseki to Busan. Discussion on the railway ferry part has been made, but it is not enough. <Mansejeon(萬歲前)> is a detailed data showing the appearance of the railway ferry. On the map of Shimonoseki at that time, the station and the pier were connected. And it was faithful to the role of the railway ferry. This article also demonstrate the railway ferry operating from ‘Shimonoseki’ to Busan at the time. There was a bathroom inside the railway ferry, and Lee In-Hwa compared the third-class room to a hut. The railway ferry on which Lee In-Hwa rode left ‘Shimonoseki’ at 10 pm and arrived in Busan at 9 am the next morning. This article reviewed the cabin layout of the railway ferry and demonstrated that there was no restaurant for third-class passengers on board. The bathroom where Lee In-Hwa went was also a space for third-class passengers. All spaces of the railway ferry were classified according to the class of the boarding pass. Eating on board and having a bath made possible the journey from the train to the railway ferry. The fare for first class was three times that of third class, and the fare for second class was twice that of third class. At that time, the proportion of Korean passengers was less than 10% of that of Japanese passengers. Among the passengers in the third-class room, the Japanese were those who migrated to Joseon for a living. At that time, the Busan Station was right next to the Busan pier. ‘The Tōkaidō Line’ and ‘The Sanyo Line’ were railway lines that Japan pioneered to advance into the continent. The role played by the railway ferry operating from ‘Shimonoseki’ to Busan was to connect the broken railroad. The railway ferry was a space where boarding pass as well as national discrimination existed.